“Since 1998, independent researchers have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism." -Dr. Susan Kressly, AAP President on recent changes to the CDC's website

New paper reminds us yet again: HOMICIDE is the leading cause of death for pregnant women. Gun violence & partner violence are related. All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Our lab's paper describing the North American H5N1 epizootic is out now in Nature! So thrilled to have this out, and congratulations to @lambod50.bsky.social for all the fantastic work on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A fascinating new Lancet ID paper offers the strongest comparative evidence yet between infection-induced and vaccine-induced immunity against mpox. The study followed people for up to 2 years after infection with monkeypox virus or vaccination with MVA-BN. #IDsky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Esto merece ser destacado mil veces ☝️

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

Three cases of clade Ib mpox not related to travel have been reported in LA. This raises concerns for probable local transmission. Vaccines are available and work to reduce disease severity or prevent infection. If you are eligible to get vaccinated do so. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ebola virus in Kasai revives 50-year-old questions on viral latency www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“So far this year, over eight thousand cases of whooping cough have been recorded nationwide based on data from the CDC. Over one thousand of those cases are [in] Florida. “Well, the numbers are really alarming. It’s a warning to all of us,” said Dr. Ronald Lee Lindsay” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Excellent comprehensive review on #Syphilis just published in #JAMA. An old disease and a powerful mimic. Interpreting syphilis serologies and how to treat is probably one of the consult questions ID physicians get the most. #IDSky #MedSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Spike in Mpox cases in Chicago prompts public health warning… #IDSky wgntv.com/health/spike...

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

New study in @thelancet.com “After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an increased risk of mortality” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14

The government shutdown interrupted CDC's disease updates, so Team Force of Infection spent our Saturday going to the websites of all 50 health departments to check on Covid-19, flu and RSV. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/cdc-data-i...

It’s #MythBustingMonday. Today’s myth: “Multiple vaccines at once will overload a child’s immune system.” This idea is popular with anti-vaccine groups and also POTUS. But immunology, decades of research, and real-world data all say the same thing: it’s false. 🧵

We are excited to celebrate the success of 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research by announcing that the entire program is now available on YouTube. 1/ www.youtube.com/@HIVAIDSarou...

I was in FL visiting my family when the FL gov said they were canceling school vaccine reqs. I was frustrated & scared as the people I love depend on vaccines to stay safe. I wrote a more personal op-ed in the @sun-sentinel.com. A plea to keep my family safe. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/16/f...

Tune in next week to hear about amazing HIV work that has saved countless lives but continues to be threatened. Help us #SaveAIDSResearch . I’ll be presenting with @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social on mpox which affects many of the same communities as HIV and whose global funding is also under attack

In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available. virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

A bizarre dogma has emerged among the anti-mRNA crowd that the only data we have on vaccines is from the original trial papers, rather than the HUGE volume of studies that came out subsequently...

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

#BreakingNews: CDC Director Susan Monarez is ousted after one month in the job. Removal follows departure of another high-ranking agency official www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/c...

Breaking News: FEMA suspended about 30 employees who had told Congress that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s emergency preparedness.

It was an exciting journey led by Sergi! 😃 Here a thread you can find out how the diversification process in arcade games follows the principles of macroevolution and metabolic allometry: including "hat-like pattern" of diversity change and persistence of the 'living fossils'👇 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

“We will live through this drought of values, principles, and facts and again apply our talents to improving global health and happiness. Do not back down. In the meantime, be clear. Kennedy’s words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus. Americans deserve better. “ www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a University of Minnesota expert on infectious diseases and pandemic preparations.”

The CDC has not provided a SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance update for 6 weeks. That is unacceptable

📢New job posting!📢 Are you excited by the idea of building global infrastructure to make pathogen sequencing more accessible, interpretable, and equitable? 🧑🏻‍💻🧬 My group at @swisstph.ch has an opening working with ARTIC2, @pathoplexus.org, & Loculus - read on! 1/5

Useful new review of SARS-1 parameters: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The impact of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus infection on dairy cows www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some great resources here:

New evidence finds no connection between the MMR vaccine and autism. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Quick update on Covid levels in England - the newest variants are dominant here but are NOT causing a significant (or barely any) wave of infections. This is good news! christinapagel.substack.com/p/covid-upda... 1/2

Important new case-control study in @jama.com - Insecure firearm storage is associated w/adolescent suicide - but not adult suicide. In other words, secure storage [locked, unloaded] is IMPORTANT for reducing kids' suicide, but may not be sufficient for adults. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Exciting!! Two doses of HPV vaccine seems to work just as well as three at preventing HPV infection (&, eventually, cancer). #vaccineswork @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“Immunizations work, they are very effective and safe, and they save lives. Vaccines are among the most rigorously studied and effective tools in public health.” Kudos to AAFP, AAP, ACOG, ACP, IDSA for this. www.statnews.com/2025/06/26/v...

Our study on the development and comparative performance of novel landscape phylogeography approaches has now been published in @pnas.org: lnkd.in/d5yuYwk6. A study led at the @ulbruxelles.bsky.social and @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, and mainly conducted with the support of the F.R.S.-FNRS

They might not be leading labs yet—but they’re leading the way. Nominate a brilliant early-career researcher or scientist for #STATWunderkinds. Deadline extended to June 27! Nominate here: www.statnews.com/wunderkinds-...

Sang Woo (Daniel) Park and I are excited to share a new preprint, "Susceptible host dynamics explain pathogen resilience to perturbations" [1/8] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Huge congratulations to everyone on the team with great vision leadership for this work from Drs. Laurens Liesenborghs and Placide Mbala, and the MBOTE consortium. And an ongoing debt of gratitude to all study participants from our work www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Inside sources told me the CDC's massive HIV surveys have been halted. This essentially wastes $72 million already spent, years of effort, and 30K people's time. Stopping the next round of surveys means trying to curb HIV in the dark. Inefficient to say the least. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Some new science 🚨👉 Wildfires drive people indoors, increasing RSV, influenza, and #Covid transmission. If even 10% of people #mask, it could offset that effect - protecting them from both viruses and air pollution. Another facet of the climate-pandemic connection journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

I am a little late on this one - but Moderna published their phase 3 trial of a combined influenza/covid mRNA vaccine in adults age 50+. Great immunogenicity. Mild, short-term side effects (muscle aches, fatigue, etc). This is good news. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...